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every objection which obstructionists can raise. Fostering insan- 

 ity, crime and imbecihty is not evidence of understanding and of 

 high ability.^ 



The divisions of hygiene are : Federal, State, Municipal, Insti- 

 tutional, School, Domicilian.-, and Personal. 



Hygiene not only makes for greater physical strength and 

 endurance but it makes for greater moral strength. It is the 

 essence of charit>", kindliness, patience and truth. 



\\'hen, through hygiene, defectives are no longer propagated ; 

 when we understand that preventable sickness is immoral ; when 

 simplicity and frugality of living is achieved, voluntan.- sickness, 

 voluntar}' celibacy and voluntary childlessness will become dis- 

 creditable, and premature deaths will disappear before temperance 

 and sanified homes. 



THE XATIVE AXBIAL RESOURCES OF THE STATE. 

 Stephen A. Forbes. 



The native animals of this State were once its most important 

 economic asset, furnishing perhaps the larger and certainly the 

 more highly valued part of the food, and all the clothing, of its 

 inhabitants, and almost the total mass, also, of its merchantable 

 products. Xow, however, they are reduced to such economic 

 insignificance that few would be found to object seriously, on 

 merely economic grounds, to a fiat of extermination to be issued 

 against our whole native fauna, if the injurious might go with 

 the beneficial species. We would cheerfully sacrifice what is left 

 to us of our native fish and game if we might pile upon the same 

 altar the vast destructive host of what we commonly call our 

 insect enemies, together with the gophers, mice and moles of the 

 fields and the owls and the hawks of the air. 



Permit me to try to sketch rapidly the nature, the process and 

 the causes of this transformation, in the hope that we may see to 

 what extent it has been, and perhaps still is, normal and helpful 

 to us, and to what extent, if at all, it has gone, or is likely to go. 

 too far in any part of its movement — at what points, if at all, it 

 may be improved upon for our purposes, or may perhaps be 

 profitably arrested or reversed. 



' To devise punishments for offenses, and then deliberately produce criminals who 

 »-ill certainly commit those offenses, is an expression of public feeble-mindedness. 



